A FAMOUS BRIGAND.

Evening Star, Issue 10213, 15 January 1897, Page 3

A FAMOUS BRIGAND.

SHOT AT LABT.

The killing of Doihinip Tibttrzi Vu the event of the dayvig lUgta recently. PM thirty yeue this famojoß .brigand was absolate muter of the' pcqvijjpeof Viterbo. Here are the main facta of his lifeh-r-Tiburzl committed his firtt crime in. 1858, killing a forest guard for revenge. For this crime be was condemned to work at the galleysfor life in the Porto Clementine near Gometo Tarquinia. His conduct Vas «C excellent during tjw eight years he was there that the director sent him wift two other convicts to gather wood, accompanied by only one keeper. »|twi»ou one of these ezenmohs that Tiborzi arranged with ope of bis companions, a certain Bisgini, to escape.

WhUotiw,unsuspecting keeper placed hie gnu against a tree the two convicts jumped upon hup, and in lees time than ft takes, one to hell it they tied him %htly, taking every,tibmg;he hadpphira. So. .being masters of a gani they fled: ip the thickest forest m tetatxegion. From that day the bandit life of Shansi begah, end, togotherwith 1 n companion, Biagmi, .defied With impunity first fthe Pontifical police, and after 1870 the Ruliaq. The famous brigand murdered seventeen but of, late years he had found a, more practicable and lees dangerous work, although more gainful. In 1880 he had the courage to go to all the large proprietors of the iprovinee and assure them that if they would promise to pay him a certain, sum, in proportion to the' extent of their lands, he would provide the police for the same, preventing any other brigand from carrying on his “ profession*” in that province, for, beside Tibnizi there were several other professionals, who, profiting by the dense and extensive forests, obliged- the proprietors to give them money and food. If denied either they woiild burn their hay and cub their grain before itwas ripe, io that the greater part of the proprietors (and some of them senators of the kingdom) accepted Tiburri’s proposition. From that day the country around was absolutely secure, and the brigand, faithful to his promise, killed five of his colleagues, among them bis companion, Biagini, who bad escaped with him from the Porto Clementino Prison. It was well known that Tiburzi laid aside at least £2,000 a year, and was absolutely a Jin de siecle brigand, very far from the legendary Italian brigand in the velvet costume and with an enormons gun. By the corpse were found excellent American revolvers and a gun of English manufacture. His death is supposed to havs been caused by the revenge of a woman, and, in fact, the policemen were informed precisely of the place where would be found the brigand, who, it seems, at sixty-four years of age, was still very fond ; of women. The raid made by the police at the house where Tiburzi was found was so sudden that he fell shot four times before he had an opportunity to offer any defence. He was photographed after death, the corpse being tied by a rope to a column. The event produced an enormous impression in Rome. There bare been over a thousand demands for his photographs, many coming from illustrated Those who are not at all pleased at Tiburzi’s death are the proprietors of the lands on which tribute was paid, for they are now obliged to make new arrangements with the only pupil left by Tiburzi, Fioravante by name, who managed to escape, leaving all his weapons. The five policemen who shot the bandit have £BOO to divide among them, that being the price placed on Tiburzi’s head, and each one was advanced in grade.